Melissa and Jacob got married on their ten-year anniversary at the charming Annapolis Wedding Chapel. Their parents came in to witness and/or perform the ceremony (Jacob's dad is a minister!), then we hit the town looking for some of that old Annapolis charm. We found it.
It was just so freakin' hot on Monday, but fortunately there's indoor space at the chapel.
When you've been with someone a long time, you start to make the same facial expressions. (And other things you notice as a people photographer.)
Melissa and Jacob do the best deadpan I've seen yet. I typically have my couples do one or two of these "weird" photos in case they're into that. These two really have great serious faces.
Congratulations, guys!
Emilie and Dennis were married at the Annapolis Courthouse, after a rollicking morning stomping through the U.S. Naval Academy and the beautiful William Paca House and Gardens. We watched the weather all week, becoming increasingly anxious about the predicted heavy rain and thunderstorms. But then overnight, the skies cleared and the rain quit at the very moment we planned to meet up! Pretty good luck for these two.
Emilie made this dress. As in, from scratch. With her hands and a sewing machine.
The William Paca gardens are really beautiful, and they're right in the middle of all the Annapolis action. They feel quite "secret."
They have some goofy relatives! I said "okay, let's do a siblings hug." Emilie says they don't really go in for that much; they're more like this:
After all that talk of rain, it was actually really sunny in the gardens when we were shooting, but our sun ducked behind a cloud juuuust long enough for me to grab one last scene.
Then we scooted over a few blocks to the courthouse to make it official.
Congratulations, you guys!
Melissa and Traci were married at the lovely Annapolis Wedding Chapel last week in a beautiful and very intimate ceremony with just their besties. These two are mad in love, y'all.
The Annapolis Wedding Chapel is this really cute tiny building off a major road with a waiting room and a ceremony room. The ceremony room has some amazing vine sculpture pin-light action going on.
If you look closely, you can see Melissa being nervous.
See? Awesome twisty vine stuff.
Their dog Tiki served as ring-bearer. He did a good job.
The chapel has all these great little spots to do a ceremony in, and the lovely owner let us have free reign of the place for a bit to do some portraits.
Afterward, we scooted to St. Johns College for some scenic images and to go somewhere that wasn't swarming with tourists or folks visiting the Naval Academy.
Congratulations you guys!